Shark Week
for kids!
for kids!Boomer isn't like other sharks. Instead of scaring all the other fish in the sea he would rather make friends with everyone.
Who's Afraid Of Boomer? is a short Picture Book published by Margaret Snyder. It is about a hammerhead shark named Boomer, who is trying to make friends.
This book provides examples of:
- All-Loving Hero: Boomer
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Every animal but the Hammerhead sharks get a free pass.
- Animal Talk
- Anthropomorphic Zig-Zag: Boomer's fins are used as hands.
- Artistic License: The sharks are brightly colored, plus Boomer is friendly.
- Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Averted; though it's justified the dolphin was Genre Savvy enough to see the Threatening Shark come into play, though it itself was inverted.
- Friend to All Living Things: Boomer the Hammerhead shark of all things is this.
- Living Toys: Possibly Subverted, but unlike the only other shark seen the illustrations of Boomer show him to be a little bug eyed by comparision and he seems to have stitching from head to tail like his toy.
- Sliding Scale of Living Toys: If he is a Living Toy he's probably some where between level 4 and 6.
- Medium Blending: Sort of every character but the sharks are colored quit simply with the sharks being more colorful then they would be in real life.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Boomer may be nice but he's still a shark and he shows it when he saves a dolphin.
- Picture Book
- Threatening Shark: Inverted. Boomer just wants to be friends with everyone.
- Toy: Just like it's sister book this one comes with a toy of The Protagonist.
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Book Accuracy/Toy Accuracy/Subverted Trope: Every toy of Boomer is intended to look different.
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- Unusual Animal Alliance: Boomer the shark wants to make friends with everyone. He then succeeds with several different animals.
Remember kids fish are friends not food!
